Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acting attorney general Stuart Gerson and FBI director William Sessions declined to identify the man held , named by a TV station as Salama Mohammed , 26 . |
| 2 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |
| 3 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 4 | Accordingly the fast-sailing Brixham smacks arrived to purchase the fish and race them to Portsmouth . |
| 5 | There was further evidence of this on March 1 when the four Premiers of the country 's Atlantic provinces met to explore the concept of creating an informal " common market " by eliminating trade barriers between them . |
| 6 | The large forces that most NATO countries fielded to guard the alliance against the Warsaw Pact provided enough flexibility to deal with most crises outside Europe , such as the Gulf war . |
| 7 | In Men of Iron , released in 1935 , Warner Bros attempted to use the steel industry in much the same way as they had earlier used the coal industry . |
| 8 | Former Middlesbrough rider Gary Havelock is among five Bradford riders seeded to reach the semi-finals . |
| 9 | In the second case , Waltham Forest and Hackney councils failed to prevent the government taking common land on Hackney marshes to build a link between the A2 and M11 . |
| 10 | In 1988 , the American Patrons of the Vatican Museums decided to buy the rest of the valuable collection . |
| 11 | Subsequent to the meeting of the Committee , representatives of the Education Department and Wimpey Homes met to discuss the land requirements for the school site . |
| 12 | In theory the increased risk of peptic ulceration in patients taking NSAIDs who are infected by Helicobacter pylori could be explained if Helicobacter pylori acted to exaggerate the inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis by NSAIDs . |
| 13 | Clwyd 's Euro Week starts today with a special edition of Clwyd Connections published to mark the occasion by the county council . |
| 14 | On the same day that it announced its intention to apply for the judicial review , Greenpeace members attempted to block the company 's discharge pipes , provoking an injunction banning them from trespassing further on the company 's property . |
| 15 | Several US journalists decided to sue the US government for infringing their liberties , claiming that the restrictions reflected more the military 's belief that free reporting during the Vietnam war had turned US citizens against the war , than concern for security . |
| 16 | After taking independent legal and accounting advice , the Trafalgar directors refused to accept the Panel 's view on the two key issues — the transfer of assets and the treatment of ACT — but in the face of a threat of legal action , the Panel announced that ‘ the directors have undertaken to make the appropriate changes and adjustments in the 1992 accounts to meet the Panel 's concerns ’ . |
| 17 | Fortunately for Adenauer enough FDP members continued to support the coalition after February 1956 ( and eventually joined the CDU ) that it survived in office . |
| 18 | Devon and Cornwall Police decided to raise the vessel and set aside £250,000 for the salvage operation , the first by a UK force . |
| 19 | OPEC officials sought to minimise the importance of Ecuador 's decision , whereas press reports indicated growing concern over divisions between larger oil exporting member countries , notably Iran and Saudi Arabia . |
| 20 | Major C R Anson of Anson Airways promised to buy the prototype if it made a record flight to Australia where it would be operated . |
| 21 | Very much on the British initiative , and spurred by fears of economic decline , in the mid-1980s the EC countries decided to implement the provisions of the Treaty of Rome concerning the internal market by 1992 . |
| 22 | The two HDUR deputies refused to endorse the report which claimed that 4,000 Romanians had been driven to leave the area in that time . |